Sunday, June 02, 2013

Count Dracula and his descendent Count Backwards


The Daily Mail ran an article the other week that began with the line ‘Dracula was on to something’.
And, once having read the title of that article – The vampire treatment that ‘rejuvenates’ ageing hearts – the inference should be obvious to all. The actual article its self, is about how Scientists have used a dose of young blood to rejuvenate ageing hearts… Not that this is a new discovery, albeit the Daily Mail would have you believe it is.

And, that aside, I would imagine that the Daily Mail intend – in all probability – the reference to Dracula to be nothing more than a light hearted way to start the article. However, as soon as I read that first line, I immediately made a connection with a darker side to it .... http://www.chrisspivey.co.uk